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The Password Conundrum

We’ve said for years (possibly decades) that frequent password changes don’t necessarily make systems more secure. Now the National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued draft recommendations encouraging longer passphrases, rather than passwords, and doing away with frustratingly or ridiculously frequent forced changes. (Anyone installed Quickbooks 2016 recently?) We have liked long, easy to remember phrases and 2-step/2-factor authentication for a long time. Read more about the whys and hows here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/08/11/theres-a-new-way-to-make-strong-passwords-and-its-way-easier/

2016-08-13T15:39:43-07:00August 13th, 2016|Uncategorized|Comments Off on The Password Conundrum

Ting becomes even more affordable

Ting, our favorite mobile carrier, last week dropped their data prices even further. Visit frg.ting.com and get a $25 service credit to boot, just because you know us!

https://ting.com/blog/ting-drops-data-prices-to-10-gb-beyond-the-first-gig/

2018-01-17T16:46:25-07:00August 11th, 2016|Announcements, Ting|Comments Off on Ting becomes even more affordable

Be a Google Local Guide for the best benefit ever…

If you can make a ton of quality recommendations in Google’s global Local Guide program you can get 1 TB of Drive storage for two years. 200+ points gets you to Level 4 where the fun starts I think. Read about it here http://www.google.com/local/guides/ The 1 TB details are here https://support.google.com/drive/answer/6320721
I wish it were for life…

2015-11-24T22:48:38-07:00November 24th, 2015|Announcements|Comments Off on Be a Google Local Guide for the best benefit ever…

Anyone need a OnePlus 2?

Here’s a funny story. I’ve been on a waiting list for ages to get an invite, and finally gave up on them like so many people before me. My shiny new LG G4 arrived last night, which of course caused OnePlus to send an invite not even 12 hours later. I’m loving the G4, so if anyone has their heart set on a factory sealed 64GB OnePlus 2 for $405, let me know by 8pm tonight, Tuesday October 6. First one to respond takes it (when it arrives in about a week). Thanks!

David @ FRG

2015-10-06T11:44:39-07:00October 6th, 2015|Android, Hardware|Comments Off on Anyone need a OnePlus 2?

The Robocaller uprising…

has us glancing at our phones way too often. Rather than be pestered by calls from every state, all from the same clever automatons, we’re going to have all our office calls answered by the auto-attendant on our FortiVoice FVC-40 Small Business Phone System. Yes, we’re fighting robocallers with auto-attendants.

Enter our extensions or zero to talk to a human being.

2018-01-17T16:46:25-07:00April 9th, 2015|Announcements, Hardware|Comments Off on The Robocaller uprising…

It’s a whole new world… or at least a new web site!

Free Range Geeks’ modern, 21st century-worthy web site is finally online. We’re bright-taupe with excitement! Actually, we’re just hoping someone will see this (“Bueller? Bueller?”) on one of our social media pages or the web site itself. We hope you’ll visit us soon!

2015-04-07T14:48:25-07:00April 7th, 2015|Announcements|Comments Off on It’s a whole new world… or at least a new web site!

Cross posting

We’re (still) building our new WordPress site and confirming posts here make it to Twitter!

 

2014-02-20T17:40:48-07:00February 20th, 2014|Wordpress|Comments Off on Cross posting
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